The French are civilized. They dress better than us: Only Frenchmen (and Fred from Scooby Doo) can confidently rock ascots.

I could go on all day, literally, but I won't. Instead I'll tell you about France's one failing--other than that whole "cooperating with Nazis thing"--and that is: They fail at rolling the world's largest joint.

French police siezed the makings of the world's biggest joint from a bunch of French loaders: "At some point, these young people had wanted to craft a joint of 1.12 metres to beat the world record in the discipline and get it officially registered," said a police officer in eastern France.